starlady: roy in the sunset at graveside (no rest for the wicked)
Electra ([personal profile] starlady) wrote2019-10-19 04:09 pm
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[vid] Another One Bites the Dust (Inglourious Basterds)

source: Inglourious Basterds
audio: Queen, "Another One Bites the Dust"
length: 3:38
download: 235MB on Dropbox
summary: "Now, I don't know about y'all, but I sure as hell didn't come down from the goddamn Smoky Mountains, cross five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily and jump out of a fuckin' aer-o-plane to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity. Nazi ain't got no humanity. They're the foot soldiers of a Jew-hatin', mass murderin' maniac, and they need to be dee-stroyed."

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This is Tarantino's best movie; it's also the last Tarantino movie that I've seen. I think in this movie his problems and quirks as a director--the violence, the racism, the sexism--are either diminished or harnessed by the subject matter so that they work towards an actually morally defensible and enjoyable whole. Which is killing Hitler and a bunch of other Nazis, all of whom deserve it. 

This vid is also what happens when my Good Omens-induced Queen obsession collides with my Equinox assignment. This was really the only song I considered for the vid, and I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. I think there's an additional frisson of resonance between the fact that Freddie Mercury was gay and the Nazi persecution of queer people, which also pleases me.